tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9739350853494124052017-08-09T04:45:38.593+05:00From my penBushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-41156010531794604812017-05-29T15:35:00.000+05:002017-06-02T11:53:48.063+05:00The ordeal of Kashmir
Farooq Dar was tied up on a spare tyre at the front of an armoured jeep and driven through villages of Srinagar, after a severe beating. Indian soldiers claimed he had been pelting stones at their patrol and the ordeal of him, tied on a tyre, would scare off others from doing the same.
On 22 May, the Indian army announced an award for the officer who tied Dar to the jeep for ‘sustained Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-30218384214982222112017-04-09T13:38:00.001+05:002017-04-09T16:07:56.226+05:00The Police 'Encounters'Yesterday, the Counter Terrorism Department in Punjab claimed that in a terrorist encounter at 1:15, they killed 10-suspected Jamaatul Ahrar terrorists, including the handler of the bomber who carried out the suicide attack at Lahore’s Mall Road.
A firefight followed, in the dark? I’m sure our Counter Terrorism Department must have ‘night-vision goggles,’ or perhaps they are simply superb Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-52785417993904423152017-02-07T21:28:00.000+05:002017-03-09T21:43:04.576+05:00Trump’s Muslim ban
Not everyone is perturbed by President Donald Trump's executive order to place travel restrictions on the citizens of selected Muslim countries.
Islamists and extremists that have long debated against the "evils" of democracy and the US - are likely having a "told you so" moment. However, there are politicians, such as Pakistan's Imran Khan, that are looking at the silver lining of this policy Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-14632486445559894272017-01-20T23:02:00.000+05:002017-03-09T21:15:01.344+05:00Freedom of speech that hurts other people's feelings
Five liberal activists, including poet Salman Maqsood had each gone missing separately since Jan. 4.
While the disappearance has raised many discussions on popular media and human rights activist on the state of freedom of speech in Pakistan and international community, it seems some human rights commentators here confuse freedom of speech as synonym of the right to offend.
Free speech is a Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-84108835098812548862016-12-29T20:48:00.000+05:002017-03-09T20:58:57.776+05:00Tayyaba and child labourAs the heart-wrenching tale of Tayyaba, the child maid, allegedly tortured in Islamabad, surfaces – it raises more questions on child labour.
Many people in Pakistan would argue that if underprivileged and poor children are being given a means of supporting themselves and their families that can only be a good thing.
Certainly, when people from wealthy countries try to tell families in Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-52150344705335462032016-11-12T18:18:00.000+05:002017-03-09T21:27:57.018+05:00Why trump is good for Pakistan
Many in west argue, Pakistan is at best a sometimes-ally when it comes to counterterrorism. But Pakistan is equally taken as an enemy, a state sponsor of terrorism a host to anti-Afghan, anti-Indian, anti-west jihadi militants. It is widely alleged that Pakistan’s military and intelligence services prefer to maintain friendly ties with some terrorists for two reasons. For Pakistan’s strategists,Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-9100824836071798822016-10-11T22:03:00.000+05:002017-03-09T22:06:51.778+05:00The honour killing bill
Pakistan on Thursday passed laws to increase sentences for rapists and those who commit so-called honour killings of women, and closed a loophole that allowed many of the killers to go free Goof development.
But it hurts that only about a third of the 446 lawmakers attended the session, but debate was raucous, with the loudest opposition coming from hard-line Islamists. Senator Hafiz Hamdullah Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-42769182553990344122016-05-07T21:06:00.000+05:002016-05-21T21:40:42.102+05:00To honour is...to love and protect!
15 years old Ambreen was dragged from her home, injected with sedatives,
strangled with ropes, tied up in a van and then burned while still alive.
Her crime: Helping her
school friend flee the village to marry of her own free will.
The ‘honour killing’ was ordered by a tribal jirga, including some family members of
the eloped girl, who then carried out the killing.
This is not the firstBushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-20813314782899615072016-04-30T22:37:00.000+05:002016-05-21T22:32:15.811+05:00What is with Maulana Sherani, anyways!The latest in the series of imprudent remarks by Maulana Sherani is his comment this Sunday that the Panama Leaks were somehow a Western conspiracy aimed at destabilising Pakistani democracy and to ‘implement their nefarious designs in the country.’
This is of course not the first time Maulana Sherani has voiced any opinions that is not grounded in facts. His ignorance over the global state ofBushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-41087175731869335272016-02-12T23:02:00.000+05:002016-02-14T01:27:09.008+05:00Of Valentine’s Day and that advert
This morning, I spotted this ultimate advert at the back page of a leading daily, to my horror!
Why don’t I share this amazing sense of morality with the person who decided to place this advertisement? I wish I had such wits, but unfortunately, whatever angle I look at it, I just can’t seem to find the exact element which makes this worthy of a quarter-page advertisement in a top newspaper!
Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-30182347412997260242016-02-07T13:35:00.000+05:002016-02-14T00:58:31.993+05:00When people like Maulana Sheerani govern our laws
Maulana Sheerani, Chairman Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), never falls short of stirring controversies every other month or so through his rounds of statements. In his latest statement to the press he announced that he intended to discuss three important issues in the meetings. (i) Deciding whether Ahmadis are non-Muslims or apostates; (2) Imposing jizya on non-Muslims (iii) determining whichBushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-46178330113718678162016-01-31T19:05:00.000+05:002016-02-14T00:52:25.384+05:00Killed in the name of honour
Shameen Obaid-Chinoy’s film on honour killing cases in Pakistan, A Girl in the River, got nominated for the Oscars today. It tells the story of a young woman who survived attempted murder by her father and uncle after she fell in love, eloped and married a man who was deemed ‘unsuitable’ by her family.
Talking about the film, Shameen Obaid-Chinoy, the film’s director says: ‘you can go into Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-41820638316976356582015-11-02T19:14:00.000+05:002015-11-19T23:27:52.641+05:00Pakistan’s impunity for crimes against journalists<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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On
Global Impunity Index of Committee to Protect Journalists (CJP), Pakistan ranks
as the ninth worst country in the world in which journalists are murdered and
no one is brought to justice.
More than 70 journalists and media workers have lost their lives since 2001
while pursuing their duties in Pakistan – 47 of whom were deliberately targeted
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Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-81824525140048309622015-08-29T20:36:00.000+05:002015-09-01T20:55:40.924+05:00The vile mob justice
A sickening trend these days, particularly on slower news days, are 'breaking' news alerts on TV about random incidents of mob justices being carried out in streets, mostly for petty crimes. The perpetrators are mostly common thieves, or robbers in some cases, being caught up by neighbours, derogated or beaten up badly in public and then handed over to police. Not only these mob justice footagesBushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-84869734533318629602015-07-31T19:48:00.000+05:002015-08-09T05:41:58.964+05:00Because slums had no place in the city of elites
Hundreds of women and children stood mum watching as their mud-houses were turned into rubbles by bulldozers. Capital Development Authority (CDA) along with Police and Rangers today carried out the operation against the illegal slums in I-11 as per the decision of Islamabad High Court.
The All Pakistan Kachi Abadi Alliance estimates that over 2,000 families live in the area which houses aroundBushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-42992316228439322122015-06-10T22:30:00.000+05:002015-07-08T22:03:47.920+05:00The heart-wrenching tale of Aftab Bahadur<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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not only tragic, it is perverse.’
To me, this killing was
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Safoora attack has made it clear once again that: no one — absolutely no one
— who exists outside the narrow, distorted version of Islam, that these
militants cum terrorists promote, is safe in Pakistan.
The brutal attack against the Ismaili community also raises some very grave
questions in the context of Karachi and the security policy recently adopted Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-89948638922516172672015-05-01T20:10:00.000+05:002015-07-04T13:26:41.983+05:00Unsilencing Balochistan
Sabeen Mahmud, murdered on April 24 as she drove to her home. As harsh as it may sound, it is becoming increasing clearer that to
be liberal and outspoken in the Pakistan is equivalent to painting a
target in the middle of your forehead.
The bloodshed in Balochistan increasingly refuses to be swept under the
carpet. When the inquiry about mass graves in Khuzdar gets buried
in files, the Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-2179769984412996152015-04-10T15:00:00.000+05:002015-04-12T00:43:51.612+05:00Karachi by-elections and the politics of ethnicity?
In the run up to the by-election of NA-246 on
23 April, the political trends seems to be shifting, and the PTI is developing
into a key player in the city’s politics.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has historically
been the dominant force in large parts of the city. Azizabad, especially, is
considered their stronghold. The party has always thrived in Karachi because of
the ethnicity Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-71130748955439845732015-03-31T12:45:00.000+05:002015-04-13T20:31:27.570+05:00Pakistan’s obsession with Saudi Arab
There have
been some news that Pakistan, among some other Muslim countries, is ready to
join forces with Saudi Arab for a ground offensive in Yemen, on its request. Social
media is oozing with commentary on how badly it is on Pakistan to join forces
with its time-tested ‘friend’, the saviour of ‘Muslim Ummah,’ who is mostly
considered a ‘trouble maker’ among its neighbouring Muslim countries.
Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-10270230214623538732015-03-20T23:05:00.000+05:002015-04-11T23:49:06.541+05:00Youhanabad church attacks and lynching
We all saw this week the tragic bombing of two churches in Lahore on Sunday. The death of 16 people triggered riots in the area when the youth of the victimised Christian community came out in protest on the road, breaking the Metro bus fence and trashing the ticket office.
However, the incident that grieved me the most, was the lynching of two innocent passersby and burning of their bodies. Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-82616208120181022072015-02-28T23:50:00.000+05:002015-04-11T23:37:27.646+05:00Gallows for poor only
With the lifting of moratorium on death
penalty last December, one of the death row prisoners is Shafqat Husaain, who
was sentenced in 2004 at the age of 14.
A watchman by profession, Shafqat Hussain was
sentenced by an Anti-Terrorism Court to death for kidnapping and killing a
seven-year-old boy. But there is a question mark over how the confession was
extracted. There are claims that Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-973935085349412405.post-157724660872404242015-01-25T18:20:00.000+05:002015-04-11T23:38:35.064+05:00Death penalty or just a sick killing spree
Pakistan’s use of the death penalty is becoming increasingly controversial, as the frequency and number of executions are growing at an alarming rate since the informal moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December.
With the widespread practice of forced confessions, the executions of minor offenders, a lack of due process in Pakistan’s flawed justice system and wrongful convictions, Bushra Nazhttps://plus.google.com/109485408656554184597noreply@blogger.com0